The president of the Ile-de-France region said she was “ready to pay for centers”, “ready to share the burden” with the City of Paris and the State.
Valérie Pécresse, president (Libres, ex-LR) of the Ile-de-France region called on Sunday to find a “health response“For crack users who believe that”Seine-Saint-Denis is not a garbage can“To move the”problem», During a trip to Pantin.
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«We need a health response and not just a game of hats”, Declared Valérie Pécresse three days after the displacement of the consumers of crack in the place Auguste Baron on the edge of the ring road between Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis. For Pécresse, “we moved the problem to Seine-Saint-Denis, which is not a garbage can (…). We cannot transfer all the problems of France, all the problems of Paris to Seine-Saint-Denis».
The Department “is a place that already concentrates a lot of social challenges“, Recalled the candidate to lead the right to the presidential election. Seine-Saint-Denis “is forced to build a wall to protect herself from Paris, to protect herself from drug addicts who are sent to her, it is not possible», Estimates Ms. Pécresse in front of the inhabitants of Pantin who came in large numbers to question him on the situation.
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According to the elected, “the solution is to open a detoxification structure instead of opening shooting rooms which disturb public order everywhere in Paris and which create encouragement to consume“. The president of the Ile-de-France region said “ready to pay centers», «ready to share the burden»With the City of Paris and the State.
In a letter sent on Saturday to the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, the prefect of the Ile-de-France region, Marc Guillaume, and the prefect of Paris police, Didier Lallement justified the displacement of drug addicts.
They argue that “the State has assumed to organize (the) temporary solution“(Place Auguste Baron), the presence of crack users on rue Riquet”in the immediate vicinity of many neighboring schools” being “untenable».
They also justify the construction of a wall blocking a tunnel between Paris and Pantin, in order to prevent crack users from going to Seine-Saint-Denis. This wall is “essential protection for the inhabitants of Pantin“, They write, adding that the Paris police headquarters”will ensure the security of the inhabitants of Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis».
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